Patents Examined by Michael Allen Brace, Jr.
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Patent number: 11237014Abstract: A vehicle infotainment system is provided. The vehicle infotainment system includes a display screen for displaying a plurality of applications and a controller communicatively coupled to the display screen. The controller is configured to display an application on the display screen. The application is divided into a first display region, and a second display region. The controller is further configured to display a plurality of categories on the first display region. The controller is also configured to receive a selection of a category of the plurality of categories. In addition, the controller is configured to display, on the second display region, a plurality of selectable points of interest associated with the selected category.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Michael Tsay, Richard Magness
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Patent number: 11222532Abstract: A traffic control support system for accurately predicting, when an irregular event occurs, a traffic state and an influence of the event on the traffic state, is provided. The traffic control support system includes calculation means for calculating, based on a relation between a flow rate and a density of traffic and a predicted value of the density in a regular state in each of a plurality of locations, an estimated value of the density in each of one or more locations at a specific time after an event starting time representing a time at which an irregular event occurs in at least one of the plurality of locations, and display control means for displaying an influence of the irregular event on traffic in each of one or more locations, based on an estimated value of the density.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuta Ashida, Itaru Nishioka
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Patent number: 11221224Abstract: Provide are a method and device for generating a path of an unmanned vehicle on a construction section. The method includes: when detecting a construction section, detected obstacle information is acquired; a current accessible area of the construction section is determined according to the type and position information of the obstacle, and each road point included in the current accessible area is determined; a terminal road point of a target driving path is determined according to the current accessible area; a current location of a vehicle is taken as a start road point, path search is performed in the road points included in the current accessible area according to the start road point and the terminal road point, and passing road points of the target driving path in the construction section are determined; and a target driving path is generated according to the start road point, the passing road points and the terminal road point.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: GUANGZHOU AUTOMOBILE GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Xinhua Gan, Hongshan Zha, Ted S Huang, Wei Xu, Caijing Xiu
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Patent number: 11221619Abstract: An autonomous driving system installed on a vehicle includes: an information acquisition device configured to acquire driving environment information indicating driving environment for the vehicle; and an autonomous driving control device configured to control autonomous driving of the vehicle based on the driving environment information. The driving environment information includes: map information; and size information indicating a size of a routing object that moves integrally with the vehicle. The autonomous driving control device refers to the map information and the size information to determine a travel route through which the routing object can pass without protruding from a roadway as a target travel route to a destination.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke Udagawa, Mitsutaka Tanimoto, Masateru Amano
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Patent number: 11208106Abstract: A method for inertia drive control with torque sharing of an eco-friendly vehicle includes when an event in which the eco-friendly vehicle being decelerated with the inertia drive control is detected; calculating, by a controller, a distance variable and a speed variable according to the event; calculating, by the controller, a deceleration torque, which is required for an inertia drive of the eco-friendly vehicle, by dividing into a motor torque and a hydraulic braking torque; and performing, by the controller, inertia drive cooperative control in which the deceleration is performed without driver intervention with motor control through the motor torque and hydraulic braking control through hydraulic braking torque.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Jee-Wook Huh, Teh-Hwan Cho
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Patent number: 11205341Abstract: A movable body monitoring apparatus is configured to be mounted on a movable body and to receive movement data related to movements of other movable bodies. The apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a generator, and a monitoring unit. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire the movement data on the other movable bodies. The generator is configured to generate, for low-speed movable bodies that are determined based on an actual speed or a type of the other movable bodies, a monitoring curve that curves along positions of a plurality of low-speed movable bodies. The monitoring unit is configured to monitor movements of the plurality of low-speed movable bodies based on a movement of the generated monitoring curve.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Hyoungwook Choi, Satoru Ikeda, Haruyo Miyakawa
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Patent number: 11192550Abstract: A method for supporting energy-efficient deceleration of a vehicle includes determining a reference deceleration depending on a current speed or a speed profile of the vehicle, determining a starting time point and a starting speed of a deceleration of the vehicle, and determining a real energy consumption and a real distance between the starting time point and a current time point and/or ending time point of the deceleration. The method also includes calculating a reference time and a reference distance for a deceleration with the determined reference deceleration between the determined starting speed and the current speed and/or the speed at the ending time point of the vehicle, calculating an energy consumption for a differential distance from the determined real distance and the calculated reference distance, and calculating a real total energy consumption as the sum of the determined real energy consumption of the deceleration and the calculated energy consumption for the differential distance.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Stefan Lindhuber, Mark Van Gelikum
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Patent number: 11187554Abstract: A method, a device, and a storage medium for providing a running road of an urban road are provided in the present disclosure. The method includes: obtaining a weighed road length of a specified urban road according to user track data of the specified urban road and road network data of the specified urban road; obtaining an actual passing period of the specified urban road according to the road network data of the specified urban road and road condition data of the specified urban road; obtaining a running speed of the specified urban road according to the weighed road length of the specified urban road and the actual passing period of the specified urban road; and providing the running speed of the specified urban on digital map products.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Chang Jiang, Wentao Liu, Hao Wang, Zhaojie Su
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Patent number: 11188076Abstract: An autonomous driving system installed on a vehicle includes: an information acquisition device configured to acquire driving environment information indicating driving environment for the vehicle; and an autonomous driving control device configured to control autonomous driving of the vehicle based on the driving environment information. The driving environment information includes: map information; and size information indicating a size of a routing object that moves integrally with the vehicle. The autonomous driving control device refers to the map information and the size information to determine a travel route through which the routing object can pass without protruding from a roadway as a target travel route to a destination.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke Udagawa, Mitsutaka Tanimoto, Masateru Amano
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Patent number: 11180185Abstract: A method and system for controlling motor driven power steering are provided. The system includes a magnetic field generation detection module that detects generation of a magnetic field upon operating an electric part of a vehicle and a torque offset determination unit that determines whether a temporary torque offset has occurred in a torque to be applied to a motor based on a detection signal of the magnetic field generation detection module. A torque offset correction unit then corrects the torque offset to a normal torque range based on a torque offset correction logic in response to determining that the torque offset has occurred.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: In Kwon Choi
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Patent number: 11176813Abstract: An approach for analyzing and predicting a pattern of debris accumulation in area based on a deviation in mobility pattern. The approach includes receiving data from one or more sensors from an area and identifying objects based on the received data. The approach determines whether the received data is a first instance and stores the data. Based on the stored data, the approach analyzes, via machine learning, a mobility pattern associated with the retrieved data. Furthermore, the approach generates an actionable task list based on the analyzed data and instructs one or more computing devices based on the actionable task list.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sarbajit K. Rakshit, John M. Ganci, Jr., James E. Bostick, Martin G. Keen
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Patent number: 11168621Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an engine in a multi-engine rotorcraft are described herein. A first parameter indicative of torque of a first engine is obtained. A decrease of the first parameter is detected. In response to detecting the decrease of the first parameter, an autorotation of the rotorcraft is accommodated, A second parameter indicative of torque of a second engine of the rotorcraft is assessed while accommodating the autorotation. If the second parameter has not decreased, a shaft shear of the first engine is identified and accommodating of the autorotation is ended. If the second parameter has decreased, the accommodating is maintained.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Sean McCarthy, Patrick Manoukian, Zachary Mounir Faty, Carmine Lisio, Philippe Beauchesne-Martel
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Patent number: 11148679Abstract: A method for operating a driver-assistance system of a vehicle includes switching from a distance controller of the driver-assistance system to an adaptive cruise control of the driver-assistance system as a function of a driver input by a driver of the vehicle expressed by an angular position of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Thorsten Gudehus, Thorsten Schori
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Patent number: 11142192Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging device, a signal processing device, and a vehicle control system enabling proper driving support when a vehicle enters a road from the outside of the road. An imaging device includes: an imaging unit that captures an image of a front of a vehicle; and an object detection unit that performs object detection processing on the basis of the image captured by the imaging unit, wherein the object detection unit changes an object detection method on the basis of a positional relationship between the vehicle and a road where the vehicle enters from an outside. The present technology can be applied to an imaging device installed in, for example, various vehicles that perform driving support.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shinnosuke Hayamizu, Kazuyuki Marukawa, Itaru Shimizu, Noriko Tanaka, Asako Kaneko
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Patent number: 11077849Abstract: A vehicle control system including: a recognizer that is configured to recognize a surroundings status of a vehicle; and a driving controller that is configured to control an acceleration and steering of the vehicle on the basis of the surroundings status recognized by the recognizer, wherein, in a case in which a plurality of pedestrians are recognized in an advancement direction of the vehicle by the recognizer, the driving controller is configured to executes follow control for following the plurality of pedestrians and is configured to determines details of the follow control on the basis of a behavior of a nearest pedestrian who is closest to the vehicle among the plurality of pedestrians and a behavior of a second pedestrian who is a monitoring target other than the nearest pedestrian among the plurality of pedestrians.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe, Ryoma Taguchi
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Patent number: 10977576Abstract: A control device generates a second command value by compensating a first command value output at every control cycle according to a predetermined pattern with a correction amount output at every control cycle according to correction data, updates the correction data based on a deviation between the first command value and a feedback value from the control object, and determines an initial value of the correction data. The control device acquires a response characteristic indicating a relationship between an assigned command value and a feedback value shown in the control object in response to the command value, estimates a feedback value to be shown in the control object based on a value obtained by compensating the first command value with temporary correction data and the response characteristic, and updates the temporary correction data based on a deviation between the first command value and the estimated feedback value.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masaki Namie, Takashi Fujii, Akiro Kobayashi